4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
156
‡ A MILITARY SHORTSWORD, LATE 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY AUSTRIAN
with broad slightly curved blade double-edged at the tip and formed with a fuller along the back-edge on each face, struck twice with a mark, a shield charged with a cross, on the reverse, iron hilt comprising a pair of drooping quillons of flattened-triangular section with pointed terminals engraved with a pair of lines, outer ring-guard and knuckle-guard en suite with the quillons, low pyramidal pommel, and early leather-bound grip, 64.7 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1170
The marks on the blade are perhaps for the Vienna Town Arsenal.
Sold for £850
with broad slightly curved blade double-edged at the tip and formed with a fuller along the back-edge on each face, struck twice with a mark, a shield charged with a cross, on the reverse, iron hilt comprising a pair of drooping quillons of flattened-triangular section with pointed terminals engraved with a pair of lines, outer ring-guard and knuckle-guard en suite with the quillons, low pyramidal pommel, and early leather-bound grip, 64.7 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1170
The marks on the blade are perhaps for the Vienna Town Arsenal.
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024, 4th Dec, 2024
Auction Location: London, UK
Including:
THE BILL TERRY COLLECTION, PART II: NON WESTERN ARCHERY
THE ROY ELVIS COLLECTION OF INDIAN ARMS & ARMOUR, PART V
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF CHARLES SOMERS COCKS, 3RD EARL SOMERS (1819-83), EASTNOR CASTLE, THENCE BY DESCENT
AN IMPORTANT ENGLISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
THE ROBERT E. BROOKER JR. COLLECTION OF RARE ANTIQUE ARMS AND ARMOUR, PART ONE: THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
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